20 Jan

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Opinion “As obsolete as warships in the Baltic” was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout’s 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself.

Author rabih
20 Jan

Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.

Author rabih
20 Jan

Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior

Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker’s accounting tools, this month after

Author rabih
20 Jan

Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who

Author rabih
20 Jan

When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight

Asia In Brief When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing. So

Author rabih
20 Jan

Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.

Author rabih
19 Jan

OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has

Author rabih
17 Jan

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it

Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn’t mere decoration on the pages of law

Author rabih
17 Jan

Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it

Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in scope as it is

Author rabih
17 Jan

Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading

Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.

Author rabih
17 Jan

Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban

The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban in the

Author rabih
17 Jan

Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day

Don’t panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users found in rsync in early December – and made

Author rabih
17 Jan

Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK’s Gateshead Council

Another year and yet another UK local authority has been pwned by a ransomware crew. This time it’s Gateshead Council in North East England at

Author rabih
17 Jan

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond’s own products

Microsoft brainiacs who probed the security of more than 100 of the software giant’s own generative AI products came away with a sobering message: The

Author rabih
17 Jan

Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling

Cisco and Nvidia have both recognized that as useful as today’s AI may be, the technology can be equally unsafe and/or unreliable – and have

Author rabih
17 Jan

GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums

General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC “to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program.” Those

Author rabih
16 Jan

Russia’s Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts

Star Blizzard, a prolific phishing crew backed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), conducted a new campaign aiming to compromise WhatsApp accounts and gain

Author rabih
16 Jan

Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M

Enzo Biochem has settled a consolidated class-action lawsuit relating to its 2023 ransomware incident for $7.5 million. The agreement was reached on January 13 and

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